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‘It’s Cool, People Your Same Age Being in Charge of You’

Enacting Student Voice through Classroom Governance Partnerships

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Realising Innovative Partnerships in Educational Research

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Contemporary orientations to student voice emphasise the importance of partnership between students and teachers and between students themselves. This chapter presents a class action research project where students and teachers worked together within a governance partnership structure to maximise student influence within classroom pedagogy and curriculum design. The classroom example highlights both the value and the complexity of enacting student voice as partnership and the importance of attending to student capacity to lead as well as ongoing reflexive critique of identities, pedagogical strategies and notions of power as core aspects of such work.

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  1. Eastern Institute of Technology, Te Aho a Māui, Taradale, New Zealand

    Emily Nelson

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  1. The University of Waikato, New Zealand

    Rachel McNae

  2. The University of Waikato, New Zealand

    Bronwen Cowie

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Nelson, E. (2017). ‘It’s Cool, People Your Same Age Being in Charge of You’. In: McNae, R., Cowie, B. (eds) Realising Innovative Partnerships in Educational Research. Educational Partnerships and Collaborations. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-062-2_2

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